Letter to the Editor

Published 12:32 pm, Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Michael Collins, a former newsman, learned how to quote statistics to support his own view, but utterly fails to inform the community by providing a full, complete story. A shame.

He wants to know "when did we tumble out of upper middle-class status?" because surely Thousand Oaks Elementary School is filled only with well-off kids (all above average) who must not be from Honduras, Bolivia or Yemen.

He quotes statistics of how many students receive food assistance, then wails that perhaps "the bar is too low” yet completely fails to identify what that low bar (for food assistance) might be (Dec. 13 Viewpoint).

Perhaps Mr. Collins would do a little more investigative journalism by leaving his upper middle-class neighborhood to volunteer as a reading mentor at Thousand Oaks twice a week, for just one month, then come back and tell the North Central community where all these poor folks came from.

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